It is easy to get angry when it is hot in summer. What to eat? How to eat?

As the saying goes: "After a little summer, it is three points hot a day." After the slight heat, the temperature began to rise gradually, and the hot summer officially began.

Chinese medicine believes that summer heat is yang evil and hot; Excessive summer heat and dampness are the most likely to hurt the heart and yang. Therefore, after the solar term, special attention should be paid to meditation, heatstroke prevention and cooling, and elimination of moisture in summer vacation.

Summer heat makes people sad, so you should calm down and nourish your heart.

Chinese medicine believes that it is very important to nourish the heart in summer, and emotional pleasure can make the heart feel comfortable. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a happy mood and a stable mood, which will help to calm the mind.

Small summer solar terms advocate siesta. 1 1 point-13 is the season of heart meridian. Taking a nap in the afternoon can not only nourish the soul, but also relieve the fatigue of work in the morning and improve the efficiency of work in the afternoon. But you should pay attention to the following three points when taking a nap: first, don't be too full before going to bed; Second, sleep time should not be too long; Third, you can't exercise immediately after waking up.

Dampness and heat should prevent heatstroke and dampness.

It's hot and hot. After a slight summer heat, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. It is extremely important to prevent heatstroke and cool down. Before going out, it is recommended to listen to the "high temperature warning", "heatstroke index" and "ultraviolet index" forecasts issued by the meteorological department to prepare for heatstroke prevention. After going out, you can use a sun umbrella, sun protection clothes, sun protection cream, etc. Do a good job in outdoor heatstroke prevention. Try to choose cool mornings and evenings for outdoor sports and avoid hot noon.

In addition, heatstroke prevention drinks and medicines are essential supplies for heatstroke prevention and summer vacation in summer. Watermelon is a seasonal fruit in summer, rich in juice, which can relieve summer heat and produce fluid, and is known as "natural white tiger soup"; Mung beans have the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relieving cough and diuresis; Sour plum and hawthorn can quench thirst; Honeysuckle and chrysanthemum can clear away heat and detoxify; Adzuki bean can clear away heat and promote diuresis. It is recommended to drink watermelon juice, mung bean soup, sour plum soup, honeysuckle tea, chrysanthemum tea and red bean porridge in summer, which has the effect of relieving summer heat and heatstroke. Taking Huoxiang Zhengqi water, ten drops of water, Ren Dan and other heatstroke prevention drugs before going out is also one of the ways to prevent heatstroke.

Summer heat is often wet, and moisture tends to accumulate in the spleen and stomach and limbs, and people are prone to anorexia, eating less, sleepiness, fatigue and other symptoms. Therefore, health care should be based on eliminating moisture. It is suggested to start from the following aspects:

1. Soak your feet with hot water at night and sweat slightly to get rid of moisture in your body.

2. Don't adjust the air conditioning temperature too low in summer to avoid moisture staying in the body.

3. Eat more products with the function of eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen, such as dried tangerine peel, coix seed, poria cocos, lentils and other porridge.

When the summer heat is slight, the head hangs down, and the winter disease is cured in summer.

"The heat is in the dog days", and the hottest dog days of the year are coming when we enter the summer solar term. This year's competition time is July 1 1, and the dog days last for 40 days.

The dog days are when the yang in nature is at its peak. "Su Wen Four Qi Tunes the Spirit" says: "People of Yin and Yang in four seasons are the root of all things, so saints nourish Yang in spring and summer and Yin in autumn and winter to follow their roots." Therefore, according to the theory of "correspondence between man and nature", this is the best time to treat winter diseases in summer.

Dog-day patch and dog-day moxibustion are Chinese medicine methods to prevent or treat some diseases through application and moxibustion, which are mainly suitable for patients with cold syndrome such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, diarrhea and rheumatism. The above methods are mainly to eliminate cold pathogens, warm and tonify Yang Qi, so as to cure or alleviate common cold diseases that easily occur in winter.

In addition to treatment, people should also pay attention to protecting the yang in daily life to consolidate the role of treating winter diseases in summer. It is recommended not to indulge in cold drinks, showers, etc. Mutton, ginger and pepper can be eaten properly and supplemented at the same temperature, which plays the role of warming meridians, dredging collaterals and dispelling cold.

Delicious and healthy diet prescription

1. Fu Tou stewed chicken with ginger.

Ingredients: rooster 1 rooster, ginger 60g, cooking wine 100ml, and proper amount of tea oil.

Practice: wash the old ginger and cut it into large pieces, and chop the whole chicken into large pieces; Boil hot water with cooking wine, and then put the chicken pieces into the boiled water to remove the fishy smell of the chicken; Turn the chicken pieces over and heat them evenly, and the chicken can be taken out when it is broken; Pour a small amount of tea oil into the pot, stir-fry ginger for half a minute, add chicken pieces for stir-frying 1 min, and then add 100 ml cooking wine for stir-frying 1 min; After the chicken is fried, put it in a casserole, put in a proper amount of water to drown the chicken, cover the pot and start to simmer. After the fire boils, simmer for 40 minutes with salt.

Efficacy: Hunan people like to eat chicken in dog days to drive away the cold. Call the chicken and choose Fu Chicken. Calling chicken and ginger can warm the yang and dispel the cold, and can dispel the cold and dampness in the body caused by eating cold and cold products in summer. It is suitable for the head.

2. mung bean old duck soup

Raw materials: old duck 1 bird, 200g mung bean and 40g Smilax glabra.

Practice: Wash the old duck after eviscerating and cut it into sections for later use; Wash mung beans, cook them with old duck and Smilax glabra, then simmer for about 4 hours, and finally add a little seasoning to eat.

Efficacy: Old duck can nourish without getting angry, mung bean can clear the heart and fire, and Smilax glabra can detoxify and promote diuresis. This soup can moisten, nourish and purge fire, and it is not easy to get angry after eating, so it is suitable for those who are hot in summer.

3. winter melon yizhi soup

Ingredients: 500g of wax gourd, 0/00g of meat100g, and appropriate amount of mushrooms and lotus seeds.

Practice: Wash the wax gourd, remove the pulp, boil it in boiling water 10 minute, take it out, add the meat (pig, sheep, cow, chicken), mushrooms and lotus seeds, and stew until the meat is cooked.

Efficacy: Wax gourd has the function of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, while lotus seeds and mushrooms have the function of invigorating spleen and improving intelligence. The soup can dispel summer-heat dampness and enhance memory function.

(The author is the director of neurology department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

Source/Health China

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